The Former Trump Presidency Thread

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:18 pm

Holman wrote:Rep. Schiff (Democrat and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee) solidly rebuked Nunes today.

Hopefully this means he'll be calling for an independent investigation.

I just read the follow-up comments on that tweet. Good lord.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:17 am

If you haven't yet read the Time's transcript of their interview with Trump yesterday, it's pretty amazing. The cognitive dissonance that must be going on in Trump's head is incredible. Also, his inability to focus on any question is remarkable. Give that man some adderall! A snippet:

But I grant you some of those. But you would agree also that some of the things you have said haven’t been true. You say that Ted Cruz’s father was with Lee Harvey Oswald.

Well that was in a newspaper. No, no, I like Ted Cruz, he’s a friend of mine. But that was in the newspaper. I wasn’t, I didn’t say that. I was referring to a newspaper. A Ted Cruz article referred to a newspaper story with, had a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast.

That gets close to the heart…

Why do you say that I have to apologize? I’m just quoting the newspaper, just like I quoted the judge the other day, Judge Napolitano, I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier, I mean Bret Baier mentioned the word wiretap. Now he can now deny it, or whatever he is doing, you know. But I watched Bret Baier, and he used that term. I have a lot of respect for Judge Napolitano, and he said that three sources have told him things that would make me right. I don’t know where he has gone with it since then. But I’m quoting highly respected people from highly respected television networks.

But traditionally people in your position in the Oval Office have not said things unless they can verify they are true.

Well, I’m not, well, I think, I’m not saying, I’m quoting, Michael, I’m quoting highly respected people and sources from major television networks.

Did you see the Wall Street Journal opinion page today, the editorial page?

I thought it was, I thought it was a disgrace that they could write that.

But let me just, the hypothetical they started with, you have to announce to the country or to the world that some serious national security event has happened, and…

The country believes me. Hey. I went to Kentucky two nights ago, we had 25,000 people in a massive basketball arena. There wasn’t a seat, they had to send away people. I went to Tennessee four nights ago. We had a packed house, they had to send away thousands of people. You saw that, right. Did you see that?

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:31 am

For some reason I think this exchange speaks volumes:

So when you…

And then TIME magazine, which treats me horribly, but obviously I sell, I assume this is going to be a cover too, have I set the record? I guess, right? Covers, nobody’s had more covers.

I think Richard Nixon still has you beat. But he was in office for longer, so give yourself time.

Ok good. I’m sure I’ll win.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:32 am

From that interview:

Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 10:43 am

Sepiche wrote:For some reason I think this exchange speaks volumes:
So when you…

And then TIME magazine, which treats me horribly, but obviously I sell, I assume this is going to be a cover too, have I set the record? I guess, right? Covers, nobody’s had more covers.

I think Richard Nixon still has you beat. But he was in office for longer, so give yourself time.

Ok good. I’m sure I’ll win.

That's amazing.

milo · Post by **milo** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:00 am

Not really "amazing" anymore. Just horrifying.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:05 am

milo wrote:Not really "amazing" anymore. Just horrifying.

If I focus on the horror, I get depressed. Amazingly horrifying?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:10 am

I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:10 am

Defiant wrote:From that interview:

Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not.

But is he Chevy Chase?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:13 am

tgb wrote:
Defiant wrote:From that interview:
Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not.
But is he Chevy Chase?

That's exactly where I went, too. We both be showing our age.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:14 am

No. Chevy Chase is intentionally funny.

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:23 am

hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.

If you think that's a 7th grade level, you haven't spoken to many 7th graders recently.

Andrew Wonser · Post by **Andrew Wonser** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:23 pm

A 7th grade is someone who inserts like and um after every word. What we have here is a kindergartner who is trying to tell a joke but forgets almost all of it and has to start over again and again trying to get it right.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:22 pm

I love how every discussion with the orange one eventually is derailed so that the jackass can toot his own horn over something. I have zero respect for this pile of garbage. That was true before he even ran for president, though.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:45 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:
hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.
If you think that's a 7th grade level, you haven't spoken to many 7th graders recently.

I think his actual level is around 3rd grade.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:36 pm

That uppity foreign press is faking up the news again.

Donald Trump said 14 false things in an interview about how he says false things

U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical license on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:43 pm

Max Peck wrote:That uppity foreign press is faking up the news again.

Donald Trump said 14 false things in an interview about how he says false things
U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical license on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)

4, 8 and 11 are really the same thing. 13 was half a question and half a false claim. And I'm willing to give Trump 5, since he did use quotes on the word some of the times.

Still leaves 10 and a half false things.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:00 pm

Defiant wrote:
Max Peck wrote:That uppity foreign press is faking up the news again.

Donald Trump said 14 false things in an interview about how he says false things
U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical license on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)

4, 8 and 11 are really the same thing. 13 was half a question and half a false claim. And I'm willing to give Trump 5, since he did use quotes on the word some of the times.

Still leaves 10 and a half false things.

That's actually exactly consistent with the Canadian currency exchange rate.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:45 pm

Defiant wrote:
Max Peck wrote:That uppity foreign press is faking up the news again.

Donald Trump said 14 false things in an interview about how he says false things
U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical license on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)
4, 8 and 11 are really the same thing. 13 was half a question and half a false claim. And I'm willing to give Trump 5, since he did use quotes on the word some of the times.

Still leaves 10 and a half false things.

Like I said, fake news, eh? Sad.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:18 pm

Well, here's a news story that Trump will like - they let him sit in the big truck!

"While meeting truckers and CEOs, President Trump sits in truck and honks horn" - full video on C-SPAN (seriously, that's what they are reporting on now?)

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:29 pm

Defiant wrote:
Max Peck wrote:That uppity foreign press is faking up the news again.

Donald Trump said 14 false things in an interview about how he says false things
U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with TIME magazine on Wednesday to discuss the subject of his untruthfulness. In the interview, he vigorously denied that he is untruthful — and said at least 14 false things. (We’ll allow him some rhetorical license on a few others. For the Star’s complete list of his false claims as president, visit thestar.com/trumpcheck.)

4, 8 and 11 are really the same thing. 13 was half a question and half a false claim. And I'm willing to give Trump 5, since he did use quotes on the word some of the times.

Still leaves 10 and a half false things.

Why should we give him 5? He's the freaking President of the United States, he should get it right the first time and every subsequent time when he says something.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:32 pm

Because he did use quotation marks around "wiretapping"?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:35 pm

hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.

Seriously. This turd makes George W. sound like a Shakespearean thespian.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:55 pm

gilraen wrote:Well, here's a news story that Trump will like - they let him sit in the big truck!

"While meeting truckers and CEOs, President Trump sits in truck and honks horn" - full video on C-SPAN (seriously, that's what they are reporting on now?)

"Daddy? Daddy? DADDY LOOK AT ME LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE".

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:09 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote:
hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.
Seriously. This turd makes George W. sound like a Shakespearean thespian.

It's not just that he lacks eloquence and vocabulary, either. It's the constant return to talking about himself and his insistence on his own greatness, no matter the question.

I'd be surprised if he has ever spoken off-teleprompter for more than a full minute without returning to the only thing he cares about.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:37 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote:
hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.
Seriously. This turd makes George W. sound like a Shakespearean thespian.

Yeah, well, language changes, and he was closer to Shakespeare's time than ours, so maybe that's not a surprise.

(Or did you mean a different George?

)

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:38 pm

Holman wrote:
Carpet_pissr wrote:
hepcat wrote:I miss having a president that actually spoke at higher than a 7th grade level.
Seriously. This turd makes George W. sound like a Shakespearean thespian.
It's not just that he lacks eloquence and vocabulary, either. It's the constant return to talking about himself and his insistence on his own greatness, no matter the question.

I'd be surprised if he has ever spoken off-teleprompter for more than a full minute without returning to the only thing he cares about.

Agreed. Content is a bigger issue than his style, IMO.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:30 am

This is kind of fucked up.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4663033/trump1928

"We just about never been on a streak like this. I think 1928. It's a long time ago. And we're gonna get a lot of things done. And then we're gonna get to truly one of my favorite things. It's called reducing taxes."

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/04/ap-fact ... ownturn-2/

TRUMP: “The news media is now obsessed with an alleged tax filing from the 1990s at the end of one of the most brutal economic downturns in our country’s history. If you remember the early ’90s, other than I would say 1928, there was nothing even close,” Trump said. He later called the early ’90s “an economic depression.”

Did I say kinda fucked up? I think I meant completely fucked up.

Which BTW, weren't the 90s when he was declaring bankruptcy on the the Taj Majal and Trump Towers to put his business partners out of business and ruin his credit so bad that he had leave the US to find international private interests to hold his debt... Weren't they the extended era of prosperity? Things were pretty damned good for large businesses and entrepreneurs and the working man alike for most of the 90s, weren't they? A lot of trust funds were born during that time frame.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:22 am

LordMortis wrote:Which BTW, weren't the 90s when he was declaring bankruptcy on the the Taj Majal and Trump Towers to put his business partners out of business and ruin his credit so bad that he had leave the US to find international private interests to hold his debt... Weren't they the extended era of prosperity? Things were pretty damned good for large businesses and entrepreneurs and the working man alike for most of the 90s, weren't they? A lot of trust funds were born during that time frame.

Well, I guess we know the story he tells himself to justify why Taj Mahal went belly up now, that he has to distort history to get there is pretty much par for the course.

Sepiche · Post by **Sepiche** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:28 am

Ha! Jezebel has an article where they redacted everything untrue from the Time/45 interview.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/we-redacted- ... 1793571837

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:45 pm

Trump has perfect genes! Only the best genes. The most beautiful genes. There should be a permalink to the Daily Show African Dictator video in every one of these statements.

Captain Caveman · Post by **Captain Caveman** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:52 pm

malchior wrote:Trump has perfect genes! Only the best genes. The most beautiful genes. There should be a permalink to the Daily Show African Dictator video in every one of these statements.

For anyone who knows the history of the eugenics movement, these kind of statements are terrifying.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:03 pm

tgb wrote:
gilraen wrote:Well, here's a news story that Trump will like - they let him sit in the big truck!

"While meeting truckers and CEOs, President Trump sits in truck and honks horn" - full video on C-SPAN (seriously, that's what they are reporting on now?)

"Daddy? Daddy? DADDY LOOK AT ME LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE".

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:11 pm

Sen Udall (D-NM), other Ds, intro bill requiring disclosure of visitor logs at the WH and other locations Trump regularly conducts business. The bill is called the Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness (MAR-A-LAGO) Act

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:05 pm

I thought it had a separate thread, but I can't find it. The Keystone Pipeline got it's permit to continue today.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:14 pm

Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday touted Charter Communications Inc's decision to invest $25 billion in the United States and a plan the company announced before he was elected to hire 20,000 workers over four years.
...
Charter said last May that it planned to add 20,000 jobs as part of its merger with Time Warner Cable and acquisition of Bright House Networks. As early as June 2015, Rutledge said Charter would need an additional 20,000 employees after those deals.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 10:10 pm

For any other computer nerds: Trump Sort — A new sorting algorithm

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:14 pm

Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas.

Business idea #1: Nepotism.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:17 pm

After bailing out the banks when they screwed over everyone in the name of greed, we should have just put them in charge of writing the rules, I guess.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:19 pm

Zaxxon wrote:Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas.

Business idea #1: Nepotism.

On a positive note though, tomorrow Jared Kushner becomes President. Sure, no one voted for him, and it's extremely unlikely that his 36-years young who also inherited his real estate gig has prepared him to transform America into America, Inc. while still somehow qualifying him to be the President's lead adviser on China, Mexico, Canada and the Middle East (specifically charged with bringing peace to Israel).

Most 36-year olds that I know are experts in several distinct and unrelated fields that they've never been educated on or interacted with in any way.